100 - Elsie May Manning - Jones, OK
Posted by: hamquilter
N 35° 33.097 W 097° 17.992
14S E 654099 N 3935547
Elsie May Manning is one of seven centenarians in this cemetery.
Waymark Code: WMET1R
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 07/03/2012
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Elsie Manning is laid to rest in the Jones I.O.O.F. Cemetery located at the corner of E. Wilshire and N. Hiwassee. There are approximately 2100 burials here.
Her headstone is a flat gray granite stone, with a lighter panel in the center which is engraved:
Elsie May Manning
Aug. 17, 1886
Jan. 10, 1987
* Elsie was born the year Apache Chief Geronimo surrendered.
* The Tootsie Roll was introduced the year she was ten.
* She was 21 the year Oklahoma became the 47th State.
* The Boy Scouts was established the year Elsie was thirty.
* Gone With the Wind was published the year Elsie became fifty.
* Elsie was 70 the year "In God We Trust" was authorized as the country's motto.
* Elsie passed away shortly after the space shuttle Challenger exploded after launching, killing all seven astronauts.